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Serious Question - Bucket List Item
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07/26/17 07:53 AM
07/26/17 07:53 AM
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Posts: 4,879 Owens Cross Roads
mcninja
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Okay, several part question here, but who on here has caught a marlin, and where did you do it and how long did the quest take and what was the cost? It's on my bucket list to catch one and put it on the wall (or at least a nice fiberglass replica).
Back story - I've always thought it would be awesome to fight one and then have it on display as a reminder and conversation piece. I've made three attempts so far. 1 - As a cruise shore excursion in Jamaica in 2006. Paid $600 and didn't get a single hit all day. 2 - While on our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. Paid $800 and wife caught a 4 lb mahi. Pretty fish, but not exactly what we were hoping for. 3 - Tried again a few days ago. We're on our 10 year anniversary here in Cabo San Lucas. Unbelievable beautiful place. Paradise. My cousin lives here with her family and she hooked us up with a great private charter. Nice boat and very friendly crew. Obviously very proficient at what they do. We didn't pay nearly as much (around $400) because she hooked us up. Anyway, a couple hours into the trip the boat broke down way out in the ocean. Motor overheated. Didn't catch fire but lots of smoke and we were dead in the water for several hours until another boat came to tow us in. And then I got seasick, bad. I've never been seasick in my life but I guess the combination of the heat and sitting there still with no breeze got me. I felt like I was gonna die. Bad bad bad.
Anyway, all that to say, I'm starting to feel like God doesn't want me to catch a marlin. Honestly I'd be just as happy with a sailfish or swordfish. This time of year is supposedly the best there is for Cabo. I'm not whining about it and I know it's called "fishing" not "catching" for a reason...Just wondering how long and expensive should this quest be??? When/if it ever does happen it'll make the success that much sweeter.
Last edited by mcninja; 07/26/17 07:53 AM.
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
#2176894
07/26/17 09:36 AM
07/26/17 09:36 AM
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Posts: 51,938 Over Yonder
Clem
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Mildly Quirky
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Hooked a white marlin for about 5 minutes down at Grand Cayman 20ish years ago on one of the worst days for just gross waves. It wasn't like "beat the crap out of you" waves but was just enough to get the boat going uuuuupppppp and then dooowwwwnnnnn and then uuuuupppppp and then dooowwwwnnnnn and then uuuuupppppp and then dooowwwwnnnnn.
Between that and the gas fumes, my head got spinning. Finally shook it off, the rod went off, had 2-3 good jumps and then it spit the hook.
Never have been for marlin or sails. If you want to catch sailfish to maybe break the ice, I'd go to southeast Florida in probably February when they're running the stream along the coast.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
#2176932
07/26/17 10:23 AM
07/26/17 10:23 AM
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leroycnbucks
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Man I hate it didn't work out for you this time but maybe next.
Whenever we come back from the rigs after jigging all night for tuna we will head south first for blue water depending on having enough fuel to get home or the seas in hopes of hooking one. Hasn't happened yet for us but we will keep on trying.
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
#2177091
07/26/17 01:11 PM
07/26/17 01:11 PM
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Posts: 16,487 Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Good luck. Hope you get him. Glad an 8-10 pound largemouth in Guntersville is my bucket list fish.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: AC870]
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07/26/17 03:51 PM
07/26/17 03:51 PM
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Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
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Glad an 8-10 pound largemouth in Guntersville is my bucket list fish.
Take vacation the third week of February, throw swimbaits around docks in __________ and ____________ and near _______________.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
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07/26/17 05:49 PM
07/26/17 05:49 PM
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Posts: 44,211 North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I want a 4lb shellcracker or a 5lb crappie.
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
#2177489
07/27/17 01:46 AM
07/27/17 01:46 AM
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Posts: 8,917 Between the coosa and cahaba
!shiloh!
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100# blue cat is my bucket list fish. I've caught two 50's so far. I like deep sea fishing but I've never had a good trip. I've been on about 20 trips and only 2 trips didn't suck. I quit wasting my money deep sea charters but my next charter will be for tarpon. More fishing, less riding and waves.
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
#2179933
07/30/17 07:57 AM
07/30/17 07:57 AM
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Posts: 4,571 Behind you
Avengedsevenfold
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I've caught one sail. Down in the Keys.
Never been on a Marlin trip. Want to though
Head to Costa Rica from what I've heard, read, and watched
Carrying a gun isn't comfortable; but at times it is comforting
"Cause the cause for the pause you think you see is really concentration on the steel” NonPoint
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Re: Serious Question - Bucket List Item
[Re: mcninja]
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07/30/17 09:55 AM
07/30/17 09:55 AM
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Posts: 2,021 Tennessee
Bait57
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Never had a want to catch a marlin or sailfish. Heck I ain't ever got to fish the ocean yet.
I really want to fish a charter and catch some red snapper and all the other good eating fish. I just want to fill a cooler/freezer with fish. Maybe one day I'll get too. Right now I'm more concerned with raising my kids. I'm gone from them enough with my job so I don't want to take away time from them for me to do something. Maybe when they are older I'll do it.
I would rather be tried by 12, than carried by 6.
Famous redneck last words -- Hey y'all watch this... Hold my beer.
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